The Movement: December 2011
As We Look to the Future [Open Thread]
Filed by Bil Browning | December 31, 2011 10:00 AM |After a banner year for LGBT rights, what do you think will happen in 2012? What strides will we make next year?Read More
A Big Gay Thank You to Republicans
Filed by Patrick J Hamilton | December 30, 2011 10:45 AM |Guest blogger Patrick J Hamilton sends a big thank you to Republicans, Teabaggers, and right-wing religious conservatives for their inspiration in 2011. Growth and good have come of it.Read More
The State of Marriage Equality 2011
Filed by Bil Browning | December 29, 2011 1:00 PM |Incredibly smart (and adorably cute) Matt Baume brings us the 2011 Marriage Equality Year in Review this week where he highlights all the advances our community has made worldwide in the past year.Read More
Catholic Bishops' Lie About Threats to Religious Freedom
Filed by Michael Hamar | December 29, 2011 9:00 AM |I was raised Catholic (altar boy, Knight of Columbus, the whole works) so I know all about the Roman Catholic Church - especially when it comes to the hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy of the bishops and Church hierarchy.Read More
The 'Game-Changing' Year in HIV/AIDS
Filed by Karen Ocamb | December 28, 2011 3:00 PM |2011 has been a game changing year in the fight against HIV/AIDS. There have so many positive advances that advocates are celebrating while we still mourn.Read More
2011: The Year In Gay
Filed by Terrance Heath | December 28, 2011 12:00 PM |Am I still a gay blogger? Well, I'm still a blogger. And I'm as gay as I've every been. But I almost hesitate to call myself a gay blogger these days.Read More
My Concerns Over the Prop 8 Repeal Initiative
Filed by Viktor Kerney | December 19, 2011 2:00 PM |I appreciate Love Honor Cherish's drive to make this happen, but I think they are way over their heads.Read More
Not Your Grandmother's Lesbian Philanthropy
Filed by Paige Schilt | December 17, 2011 6:00 PM |This time of year, my mailbox is overflowing with letters. They're not Christmas cards. My holiday inbox overfloweth with end-of-year fundraising letters from nonprofits. Read More
EQCA Brings on Key Women to Re-Build the LGBT Organization
Filed by Karen Ocamb | December 16, 2011 5:00 PM |Until now I had not realized that the entire "Save Equality California" effort seems to be publicly lead by women.Read More
GOProud: The Walrus and the Carpenter
Filed by Bil Browning | December 15, 2011 6:00 PM |I've always known that the Republican asshats at GOProud have some fucked up priorities, but let me see if I have this right...Read More
A Young Activist Perspective on Global LGBT Rights
Filed by Guest Blogger | December 14, 2011 12:00 PM |For me, as a 24-year-old white guy from Spokane, Wash., this week was monumental. I've been working at the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission as Communications Associate since July. But this time was different.Read More
LGBT Rights Are Human Rights: Time to Celebrate?
Filed by Antoine Craigwell | December 13, 2011 6:00 PM |LGBT people are part of the social fabric, and thus part of the population that benefit from the foreign aid funding. A cut in aid will have an impact on everyone, and more so, on the populations that are already vulnerable.Read More
Stereotypes about Black Lesbians
Filed by Amy Andre | December 12, 2011 10:00 AM |This language feeds into a negative stereotype about black lesbians: that they don't know themselves - don't understand their own sexuality - as well as or as quickly as white lesbians know themselves.Read More
Barney Frank's Views on LGBT Activists & Bloggers [Open Thread]
Filed by Viktor Kerney | December 10, 2011 4:00 PM |I'm very curious to know what your opinion on Barney's views on LGBT activists and bloggers. Do you agree or disagree with his assessment of the movement?Read More
Prop 8 Was Not Overturned This Week
Filed by Joe Mirabella | December 09, 2011 3:30 PM |While these renewed celebrations may have felt good, they were more than a year late, and incredibly misleading. Perhaps you should share this blog post now, so your friends know the marathon is still not over. Read More
NCLR Policy Director Named to Ebony Power 100 List
Filed by Bil Browning | December 08, 2011 1:00 PM |Congratulations to my friend, Maya Rupert, for being named to Ebony Magazine's Power 100 List. Maya is the Federal Policy Director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights.Read More
'Against Equality: Don't Ask to Fight Their Wars' Is Out!
Filed by Yasmin Nair | December 07, 2011 9:00 AM |Our newest anthology of archival writing and images critiquing gay and lesbian investments in overturning Don't Ask, Don't Tell and militarism more broadly is now available.Read More
Hillary Clinton's LGBT Rights Speech to the UN
Filed by Bil Browning | December 06, 2011 7:15 PM |Here's the speech everyone is talking about today. It's being heralded as a modern day "I Have a Dream" speech.Read More
BOLD Gathering Motivates LGBT People of Color
Filed by Karen Ocamb | December 06, 2011 5:00 PM |The BOLD Gathering in Minneapolis was designed to empower LGBT leaders of color to meet this "movement moment" when LGBT communities of color profoundly intersect with the economic crisis and the right wing response to such issues as immigration.Read More
How Wall Street Can Stay Greedy & Be Well Loved
Filed by Anthony Carter | December 06, 2011 11:00 AM |I have taught and worked in a variety of places with a variety of young people and some annoying and not always productive adults. Money is not the issue here. We have to change our thinking.Read More
Iowa Teen Argues the Good Argument
Filed by Leslie Robinson | December 06, 2011 9:00 AM |I give Jane Schmidt a world of credit. The Iowa high school student held her own in an exchange with Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann. At Schmidt's age, shaking a candidate's hand was enough to make me forget my name.Read More
HIV Receives Its First Hate Mail in 30 Years
Filed by Anthony Carter | December 05, 2011 4:00 PM |Dear HIV, I am sending you this brief note because once again you have pissed me off.Read More
GLAAD's Blue Carpet Gala in Fort Lauderdale
Filed by Father Tony | December 05, 2011 2:00 PM |The Blue Carpet Gala helps raise funds for GLAAD's work in Florida and across the nation to bring culture-changing stories that increase understanding and build support for full LGBT equality to millions of homes, schools and workplaces.Read More
GL vs BT: Why We Aren't A Real LGBT Movement Yet
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | December 05, 2011 12:00 PM |Why is the LGBT movement experiencing frustration of our goals? Perhaps it has something to do with our lack of understanding about who we are and who we are not. Read More
A 'Movement Moment' for LGBT People of Color
Filed by Karen Ocamb | December 03, 2011 4:00 PM |Many POC groups have either faded away for lack of organizational funding or included an HIV education program to attract capacity building grants. That endless cycle may now be changing.Read More
Wendy Williams: 'Ending HIV Is Not Magic'
Filed by Michael Emanuel Rajner | December 01, 2011 3:30 PM |Like most gay men, I absolutely love it when our divas stand tall in their high heels and speak out to end HIV. I'm willing to put on high heels and stand up to end HIV along side Wendy Williams. Will you?Read More
Let's Redouble Our Commitment to Cure AIDS
Filed by Michael Emanuel Rajner | December 01, 2011 9:00 AM |The debate over the federal budget and deficit reduction gets more heated each year. But on this World AIDS Day, the benefits of federal investment in research are incontrovertible. As documented earlier this year, for the first time in history, a cure for AIDS is possible.Read More
